Author Biography
Early in life, Southern California born writer Sylvia Ross worked as a cell painter for Walt Disney Productions in Burbank, California. Later, she taught school in Central California. She is the author/illustrator of two children's books LION SINGER and BLUE JAY GIRL, and is also the author/illustrator of a small book of drawings and short writings: ACORNS AND ABALONE. Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies. ACTS OF KINDNESS, ACTS OF CONTRITION, the story of the long-reaching effects of an act of violence, is her first novel. Her second novel, EAST OF THE GREAT VALLEY, dramatizes the struggle of Native People to survive the great genocide of the California Gold Rush period. Sylvia Ross and her husband make their home in the foothills of eastern Tulare County, California.
